An Illinois federal jury is set to begin deliberating Monday on a mother's claims that Mead Johnson is liable for her infant son's death, with attorneys making closing remarks Friday in the first test case to be tried among more than 800 consolidated lawsuits linking a deadly bowel condition to premature baby formula.
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TOP NEWS

Mead Johnson, Mom Clash On Formula Risks In Trial Closing

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal jury is set to begin deliberating Monday on a mother's claims that Mead Johnson is liable for her infant son's death, with attorneys making closing remarks Friday in the first test case to be tried among more than 800 consolidated lawsuits linking a deadly bowel condition to premature baby formula.

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Schwab Vendor Exempt From Ill. Biometric Law, 7th Circ. Says

By Lauraann Wood

The Seventh Circuit agreed Friday that a vendor Charles Schwab uses to authenticate customers' voiceprints is exempt from Illinois' biometric privacy law as it refused to revive claims that the vendor illegally collected callers' data.

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Analysis

Meta's $17B Child Safety Deal Puts Heat On Congress To Act

By Allison Grande

Meta's landmark $17.1 billion settlement of states' claims that it purposely addicted kids to social media mandates many of the safeguards increasingly being required by a growing patchwork of largely contested state child safety laws, boosting not only the profile of these measures but also the push for Congress to enact a more comprehensive fix.

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SEVENTH CIRCUIT

'Troubled' 7th Circ. Finds No Harm From Benesch Atty Conflict

By Lauren Berg

While "troubled" by an ex-Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP partner's decision to take on a client's trade secrets suit while negotiating a move from Benesch to the defendant company's outside counsel, the Seventh Circuit agreed Friday that the displeased client cannot pursue her legal malpractice claim.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Analysis

Medical Marijuana Industry Grapples With DEA's New Role

By Sam Reisman

After years of allowing the state-sanctioned medical marijuana industry to operate without interference, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is stepping in to regulate a drug it once treated exclusively as contraband, but attorneys and regulators say the cannabis industry's interactions with the agency are off to a rocky start.

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LITIGATION

AbbVie 'Concocted' Cancer Drug IP Claims, Biotech Firm Says

By Ben Adlin

Biotech firms ProfoundBio and Genmab urged a Seattle federal judge Thursday to throw out rival AbbVie's lawsuit accusing two of its former employees of taking trade secrets on cancer therapies to ProfoundBio, arguing AbbVie's claims are time-barred, and the information wasn't a protectable trade secret.

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DEALS

EXPERT ANALYSIS

10 Ways To Avoid Privacy Risks Revealed In AI Notetaker Suits

Litigation claiming Otter.ai trained its AI-powered transcription tool on user conversations and a recent complaint alleging Granola’s notetaking bot joined video calls unbeknownst to participants show companies should assess these technologies as communications-capture tools with privacy and wiretap risks, says Jennifer Ruehr at Hintze Law.

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Fed. Circ. In July: Meeting The Enablement Requirement

The Federal Circuit's decision in Wyeth v. AstraZeneca last month exemplifies when a generalized conception of an invention is insufficient to enable the full scope of asserted patent infringement claims, and may lead to more enablement challenges, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Ex-Clifford Chance Attys Fight Bid To Toss Clawback Suit

By Ryan Boysen

The two partners facing a $6 million clawback demand by Clifford Chance LLP have again asked a federal judge to decide whether English or New York law should govern the arbitration, claiming the firm's partnership agreement is unclear.

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How Did Litigants Fare In Judge Albright's 55 Patent Trials?

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright oversaw more than 50 patent trials between his 2018 arrival on the bench and planned Monday departure, and in a surprise for many attorneys, there was a near-even split between victories for patent owners and accused infringers.

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New Report Rings Alarm On Threats To Judicial Independence

By Jack Karp

Verbal attacks on judges, disinformation about the courts and the defiance of court orders are undermining the independence of the federal judiciary and significantly affecting individual judges' ability to do their jobs, a report out Monday says.

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Roundup

Defamation Litigation Roundup: NYT, J&J, Azerbaijan

By Theresa Schliep

In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 details a jury verdict against The New York Times in a suit involving its reporting on a shooting in Alabama, and highlights a judge's decision to spare researchers from a suit by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary over their talc research.

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House Passes Bill To Curb Secret Prosecutor Orders

By Courtney Bublé

The House passed a bipartisan bill via voice vote Monday afternoon to add transparency to prosecutors' use of nondisclosure orders for telephone service providers.

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Brief

House Passes Bill Adding Texas, California Court Sites

By Courtney Bublé

The House voted 378-10 on Monday evening to expand access to federal courts in Texas and California, the two most populous states in the nation.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over a $200 million federal grant, a $1.7 billion software take-private deal, the ouster of Better.com founder Vishal Garg and a proposed $4 million settlement stemming from an electric vehicle company's SPAC merger.

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Roundup

Hub Hires: MassBar, Kirkland, Troutman

By Chris Villani

Massachusetts' legal landscape saw a sizzling summer finish, with several major firms making hires. Kirkland added a veteran white collar defense attorney, Troutman bolstered its real estate team and Day Pitney nabbed an experienced corporate attorney.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aaron Katz Law

Ali & Lockwood

ArentFox Schiff

Baker Botts

Benesch

Bradley Arant

Bradley Bernstein Sands

Case Law Group

Choate Hall

Clifford Chance

Corr Cronin

Cotsirilos Poulos

Covington & Burling

Day Pitney

Dentons

Desmarais LLP

DiCello Levitt

Duane Morris

Freshfields

Gordon Legal

Greenberg Glusker

Hinckley Allen

Hintze Law

Holland & Hart

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Kirkland & Ellis

Knobbe Martens

Latham & Watkins

Levin Rojas

Loeb & Loeb

Lowenstein Sandler

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuire Law PC

Munck Wilson

Munger Tolles

Nelson Mullins

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

Peiffer Wolf

Prince Glover

Proskauer Rose

Ropes & Gray

Rubin Rudman

Sidley Austin

Steptoe LLP

Stoel Rives

Summit Law Group

Troutman

Troutman & Troutman

Vicente LLP

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

ZwillGen

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AbbVie Inc.

Abbott Laboratories

Apple Inc.

AstraZeneca PLC

ByteDance Ltd.

Cable News Network Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisneros

Genmab A/S

Google LLC

Growth Corp.

Huntsman Corp.

ImmunoGen Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

LinkedIn Corp.

Massachusetts Bar Association

McKinsey & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

NCR Corp.

Natera Inc.

New York University

Nuance Communications Inc.

Olin Corp.

Pfizer Inc.

Snap Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Starbucks Corp.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The New York Times Co.

The University of Alabama System

TikTok Inc.

Waddington North America Inc.

YouTube Inc.

Zuora Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Department of Cannabis Control

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama